UK News Former aid minister 'shocked' by Oxfam claims

13:39 13 february 2018

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Oxfam re-hired man fired over sex misconduct claim

An Oxfam worker fired over sexual misconduct allegations in Haiti was later re-hired by the charity in Ethiopia, it has emerged. Oxfam said the decision to employ the man as a consultant in the African nation was a "serious error".Several staff were sacked or resigned in 2011 over a string of lurid claims, including that they had used prostitutes while delivering aid to earthquake-hit Haiti.In a statement, Oxfam said re-hiring one of those workers in Ethiopia "should never have happened"."We are still checking how this occurred," the charity added.

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Minnie Driver quits Oxfam role over sex scandal

Actress Minnie Driver is the first celebrity to resign as an Oxfam ambassador in protest at the sex scandal engulfing the charity. The Good Will Hunting star said she was "horrified" by allegations that some Oxfam staff had sex with prostitutes in crisis-hit Chad and Haiti.Several of Oxfam's corporate sponsors including Sainsbury's, Visa, M&S and the Co-op bank, have said they contacted the charity to raise concerns about the claims.In a statement to The Telegraph, Driver said: "I am nothing short of horrified by the allegations against Oxfam International.

Home > World News > Former aid minister Priti Patel claims government officials tried to hush up Oxfam abuse. The government’s aid supremo also admitted charity donors will have been put off from giving by the shocking revelations.

Her claim came as her successor at DFID, Penny Mordaunt, accused Oxfam of failing in its “moral Senior DFID staff told the former minister – who resigned three months ago The government’s aid supremo also admitted charity donors will have been put off from giving by the shocking revelations.

Former international development secretary Justine Greening has said she does not recall being aware of the allegations surrounding senior Oxfam aid workers in Haiti.

Speaking to Sky News, the Tory MP said she was "absolutely shocked" to hear of the allegations that some of the charity's employees used prostitutes in the country following the 2010 earthquake.

She said: "I don't recall being aware of those allegations but I certainly know that whenever I had any instances raised with me they would always would have been followed up.

"I'm not the kind of person who would have ignored anything like that, why would anyone?"

Justine Greening served as secretary of state for international development between 2012 and 2016.

What the papers say – February 13

The latest developments in the Oxfam abuse allegations feature in Tuesday’s papers.The Times runs with the Oxfam story, saying that the chief executive “failed to act” on allegations that a woman was coerced into sex in return for aid in a disaster zone.

The Prime Minister has called the UK’s charity regulator to launch a “full and urgent investigation of these very “Moreover we received positive references from former Oxfam staff – in their individual capacities – who Read: Oxfam aid workers used prostitutes during Haiti relief efforts, report claims .

Downing Street has refused to say it has full confidence in senior Government officials after a former Cabinet minister claimed they knew about allegations of sex abuse by aid workers. An Oxfam spokesman said: “We are shocked and dismayed about the latest revelations from Chad.

She said that in the first half of 2016 the department was starting to look into how to keep track of people in the NGO sector "who were not behaving appropriately" in order to "make sure they were never allowed to circulate around the system."

Downing Street has refused to say it has full confidence in senior Government officials after a former Cabinet minister claimed they knew about allegations of sex abuse by aid workers. An Oxfam spokesman said: “We are shocked and dismayed about the latest revelations from Chad.

International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt told Sky News on Tuesday: "I know people will be worried about the charity, they'll be worried about the money, but we need to be guided by what the Charity Commission are doing.

"And also I have made it very clear to Oxfam what we expect to see from them but these decisions shouldn't be taken hastily."

The comments come after Helen Evans, Oxfam's former head of global safeguarding, said she was told of three examples of sexual misconduct in the space of 24 hours during her time in the post.

She was told about two women being coerced to have sex and a worker who had failed to say he had previously been struck off for sex abuse.

Ms Evans told Channel 4 News: "There was... a woman being coerced to have sex in a humanitarian response by another aid worker, another case where a woman had been coerced in exchange for aid and another one where it had

come to our attention where a member of staff had been struck off for sexual abuse and hadn't disclosed that, and we were then concerned about what he might be doing, and that was three allegations in one day."

Ex-Oxfam Haiti boss: Sex party claims 'nonsense'

The man at the centre of the Oxfam sex scandal has broken his silence, denying allegations he solicited prostitutes or held sex parties while working for the charity. In a TV interview accompanied by a long open letter, Roland van Hauwermeiren said that much of what was alleged against him was "absolute nonsense".“Of course I’m not regarded very well by people perhaps who were less professional journalists who allege that Oxfam is an instrument to have sex orgies with the help of upstanding citizens but that’s absolute nonsense.” Mr van Hauwermeiren told Belgium’s VTM television.

He said: “Many people who support Oxfam will be shocked and saddened by this highly political campaigning in domestic British politics. Former adviser to Labour shadow Cabinet minister Douglas Alexander. Jo Cox. Oxfam : Former head of policy, Oxfam .

Downing Street has refused to say it has full confidence in senior Government officials after a former Cabinet minister claimed they knew about allegations of sex abuse by aid workers. An Oxfam spokesman said: “We are shocked and dismayed about the latest revelations from Chad.

In a statement posted to Twitter, Ms Evans claimed the allegations surrounding Oxfam's work in Haiti were not an "isolated incident" and that claims began to "flood in" as reporting mechanisms were strengthened.

In response to Ms Evans' claims, an Oxfam spokesperson said: "We regret that we did not act on Helen's concerns much quicker and with more resources."

They added that the charity had "introduced a whole range of measures to improve how we deal with safeguarding issues".

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Oxfam says staff intimidated witnesses in Haiti sex scandal .
Oxfam workers suspected of sexual misconduct in Haiti intimidated and threatened a witness as the charity investigated the original claims , according to the organization's report on the internal inquiry.The findings were part of a previously confidential report released by Oxfam on Monday as the charity responds to newspaper stories suggesting it covered up allegations that seven employees used prostitutes on the charity's property while working in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake that devastated the country.

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